Dealing With Homesickness in First Year

Nobody prepares you for how quiet a rest room feels at 9pm when everyone back home is having dinner without you. First year homesickness catches most students off guard, even the ones who were counting down the days to leave home. Here’s why it gets to you so...

Coping with Anxiety and Academic Pressure at University

Nobody warns you properly about this part. The deadlines stack up, the workload never really lets up, and somewhere in first semester, that tight feeling in your chest becomes familiar. That’s academic anxiety, and almost everyone at university deals with some...

How To Make Your Gap Year Productive

A gap year sounds relaxing until month three, when someone asks what you’ve been doing and “not much” starts feeling embarrassing to say out loud. That’s the trap most people fall into. Done right though, a gap year can set you up better than...